On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They've been going for over two years, if they were going to have a > big recruitment push wouldn't they have done so by now? But really, > trying to recruit writers is the wrong way round, they need to recruit > readers, that's where the writers come from for exponential growth > (which they need if they are going to get anywhere). However, I can't > see how they can recruit readers until they have enough articles to be > useful - it's a catch-22 and that's why I don't think any similar > project will ever rival Wikipedia, simply because we got there first. > I don't disagree. I'm just saying we should think of Citizendium as another (small) place for people to produce free content similar to the kind Wikipedia produces, as a potential collaborator with Wikipedia rather than a competitor (which isn't realistic, if it ever was). That's a very real possibility once the license change happens. -Sage (User:Ragesoss) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
